Happy Birthday Witches!

The first album I ever bought from Burning Witches Records was Maine’s V. To be completely honest I didn’t even pay attention to the label because that album sucked me in so wholly. It bewitched me, pun intended. I just knew I was paying international shipping fees and I was totally good with that. The […]

Missionary Work : The Ash tree

There’s something stately and haunting about Missionary Work’s new album The Ash Tree. Renato Montenegro has built an ornate castle of sound that is part parlor music, baroque Gothic, and classical music from beyond the grave. Music to accompany M.R. James’ tale of the same name, the harpsichord melodies intertwine with haunting synth and regal […]

Candlebox : Wolves

Candlebox hit the scene with their self-titled debut in 1993. A hard rock four-piece coming out of the over-saturated Seattle music scene that was still reeling from the great grunge takeover of 1991. Candlebox stood apart from their hometown’s contemporaries in that they made straight up alternative rock that veered closer to Janes Addiction than […]

Burial Grid Drops “Crisis Apparition”

Adam Michael Kozak, aka Burial Grid, is counting down the days till his next full-length LP will drop. Shores of Quiddity is promising to be one of the artists best albums yet. That’s saying a lot given his last two releases were We’ve Come For Your Flesh and Negative Space, two incredibly heavy and engaging […]

The Sounds Of Fall : Albums To Summon The Darkness Part II

I guess depending on your personality, The Partridge Family album could summon the darkness. I hope that’s not you, though. If it is, please seek help. Seriously, David Cassidy is not the Prince of Darkness. My point is that there’s all kinds of albums that carry serious shaded spots to them. I covered a few […]

New Ivan The Tolerable & His Elastic Band, ‘The Long Year’, Drops 11/26; Listen To “Night Hospital”

The last release from Oli Heffernan, aka Ivan The Tolerable, & his Elastic Band was 2020’s excellent Out Of Season. That album was this mixture of free form noise, blistering riffs, Sun Ra space explorations, and beatnik spirit in the form of spoken word courtesy of one of the coolest dudes on the planet, Mike […]

Steve Moore : Gone World

Steve Moore has kept pretty busy despite a slow time for working musicians. Starting last year with a killer track on the Portals comp via Behind The Sky, Zombi’s excellent 2020, a series of covers this year under the ‘Zombi and Friends’ moniker, the collab album Liminial Migration with Bluetech, a new Zombi ep earlier […]

Missionary Work Returns With ‘The Ash Tree’, Out 10/1; Listen To “Thou Shalt Seek Me in the Morning…”

Library Of The Occult returns 10/1 with a gorgeous slice of baroque horror in Missionary Work’s haunting new album The Ash Tree, a musical companion to M.R. James’ tale of the same name. Witches, hangings, trees, and things that go scratch in the night are at the heart of James’ tale. Missionary Work gives us […]

Nightmare Songs : The Sleazy Beauty of Slasher Film Festival Strategy

This is a repost from April of 2016 when I talked with Christopher Ashley of Slasher Film Festival Strategy. Great talk and felt it was worthy of a repost. Tune in tomorrow for an exclusive premiere. You’re gonna dig it. – J Hubner Growing up a horror hound, there were many aspects of those sleazy, […]

The War On Drugs’ “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”

The War On Drugs have become one of the best rock and roll bands working today. In fact, the ensemble rock band seems to be a fading thing. With the exception of a handful of bands, The War On Drugs seem to be a dying breed. They make earnest, blue collar music that feels both […]